02512cam a22003137 4500001000700000003000500007005001700012008004100029100002200070245021500092260006600307490004200373500001900415520100800434530006101442538007201503538003601575690006701611690005601678690007001734690010101804690005601905700002501961700001801986710004202004830007702046856003802123856003702161w16546NBER20150802184038.0150802s2010 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aFlory, Jeffrey A.10aDo Competitive Work Places Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job-Entry Decisionsh[electronic resource] /cJeffrey A. Flory, Andreas Leibbrandt, John A. List. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc2010.1 aNBER working paper seriesvno. w16546 aNovember 2010.3 aRecently an important line of research using laboratory experiments has provided a new potential reason for why we observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such preferences yield differences in naturally-occurring labor market outcomes remains an open issue. We address this question by exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into different compensation regimes. By varying the role that individual competition plays in setting the wage, we are able to explore whether competition, by itself, can cause differential job entry. The data highlight the power of the compensation regime in that women disproportionately shy away from competitive work settings. Yet, there are important factors that attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and the local labor market. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web. 7aC93 - Field Experiments2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aJ0 - General2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aJ1 - Demographic Economics2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aJ16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aK0 - General2Journal of Economic Literature class.1 aLeibbrandt, Andreas.1 aList, John A.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. w16546.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w1654641uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w16546